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Article: Working with children with special needs: the difference you makes is now ... the experience you gain is forever.
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- Camping Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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It is often said by people who mean well that working with children with special needs "requires the patience of a saint." Not true. What it does require is human compassion--something more of us have than we seem ready to acknowledge.
Elevating the status of someone who works with a child with special needs to that of a saint is a not so-subtle way of saying that the work is so challenging that it requires extra human effort. At the same time, it establishes the justification for not even considering such work. After all, if one is only human, let the saints among us help the physically disabled, lead the blind, comfort the emotionally disturbed, and tend the ...